Parents, Educators, Adults, Professionals, & Students 14+
Life in High School & Beyond Virtual Conference
Friday, April 22, 2022
Suggested Level Codes: M=Middle School HS=High School PS=Post-Secondary A=Adult E=Everyone
Suggested Audience: F=Family Ed=Educators O=Outside Professionals S=Students A & E codes above
8:45-9:00 Welcome & Instructions
9:00-9:45 SessionA
Room 1: Assistive Technologies to Facilitate Reading and Writing Skills/Shepardson (M-PS; E)
Room 2: Special Education 101: Legalities and Practicalities/Meltzer (M-HS; E)
Room 3: NAMI New Jersey: Ending the Silence/Koenig (E; E)
Room 4: Pandemic to ENDEMIC: Putting Community Back in Community Based Instruction/Shanahan
(M-PS; F, Ed, O)
Room 5: The Roadmap to College for Students Who Learn Differently/Estrada (HS-PS; E)
Room 6: Financial Strategies for Families with a Child with Special Needs/Pedersen, Friedson (E; E)
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-10:45 Session B
Room 1: Transition Ready: The ultimate ‘selfies’ to take to college /Hebert (HS-A;E)
Room 2: Proven Techniques to Increase Learning, Manage Attention and Gain understanding of Executive
Functions – Part 1/Elrom (E; E)
Room 3: Transitioning to the College Setting with Appropriate Accommodations/Meltzer (HS-A; E)
Room 4: Letting Go to Foster Independence-How to Support without Enabling/Taylor-Klaus (M-HS; F)
Room 5: How to Apply to Colleges with an IEP/Tellier, Rotter, Wyers (HS-PS; F, S)
Room 6: Recovering from the Pandemic for Teens and Children with ADHD-Part 1/Hughes (HS-PS; E)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Session C
Room 1: Practical Strategies for Supporting Student Mental Health & Resilience/Moore (M-HS; E)
Room 2: Proven Techniques to Increase Learning, Manage Attention and Gain understanding of Executive
Functions – Part 2/Elrom (E; E)
Room 3: The College Search for Students with Learning Differences/Weil (HS; E)
Room 4: Adult Learning Disability Assessments 101/Pill; Yudofsky (HS-A; F, PS, A)
Room 5: Supporting Youth Voice in the IEP: A Path to Success/Monaco (HS; E)
Room 6: Recovering from the Pandemic for Teens and Children with ADHD-Part 2/Hughes (HS-PS; E)
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-12:45 Session D
Room 1: Learning After Graduation: Day Program & Academy for Continuing Education/Morris-Marano
(PS-A; E)
Room 2: Preparing Now….for Life After High School-Part 1/Dendy (M-HS; F, E, O)
Room 3: Interagency Collaboration and Pre-Employment Transition Services/Freeman, Atin-Shark,
Scott (M-HS; F, Ed)
Room 4: The College Disability Support Office: Everything You Need to Know/Sullivan, Yost (HS-PS; E)
Room 5: Top 10 College Admissions Myths: The LD Edition/Endlich, Swenson (HS; F, S)
Room 6: Executive Function, Metacognition & Technology:Promoting the Success of ALL Students/Greschler(E;E)
12:45-1:00 Break
1:00-1:45 Session E
Room 1: Neurodiverse Adulting 101/Winston (HS-A; E)
Room 2: Preparing Now….for Life After High School-Part 2/Dendy (M-HS; F, E, O)
Room 3: Transition Services: Who Pays for What and How to Enforce It-Part 1/Disability Rights NJ
(HS-A; E)
Room 4: Mindful Parenting: Learn to Respond Rather than React/Bandy (M-HS; F)
Room 5: Building a Best Fit College List for Your Neurodiverse Student/McGaw, Royal (HS-A; E)
Room 6: Preparing for Life beyond High School: Tech Tools for Independence Pt. 1/Janowski, Marotta (HS-A; E)
1:45- 2:00 Break
2:00-2:45 Session F
Room 1: Owning Your Emotions: Social-Emotional Support for Adults with LD-Part 1/Grigg Mason, McGaw,
Samaniego, Teach (PS-A; F, S)
Room 2: Planning Before High School Graduation/Ford (M-A; E)
Room 3: Transition Services: Who Pays for What & How to Enforce It-Part 2/ Disability Rights NJ
(HS-A; E)
Room 4: Supporting High Schoolers’ Executive Functions while Preparing for College/Sperrazza, Haller
(HS-PS; E)
Room 5: Positive Psychology Strategies and Tools to Reconnect to Your Child-Part 1/Corn (E; E)
Room 6: Preparing for Life beyond High School: Tech Tools for Independence Pt. 2/Janowski, Marotta (HS-A; E)
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:45 Session G
Room 1: Owning Your Emotions: Social-Emotional Support for Adults with LD-Part 2/Grigg Mason, McGaw,
Samaniego, Teach (PS-A; F, S)
Room 2: Cultivating Independence After High School/Franklin (HS-A; E)
Room 3: Solving for X: Math Disabilities and Executive Functioning/Murphy (M-HS; F, E, S)
Room 4: Innovative Employment for People with Autism-A Model for Others/Rothman (PS-A; F, E, O)
Room 5: Positive Psychology Strategies and Tools to Reconnect to Your Child-Pt 2/Corn (E; E)
Room 6: Succeeding with Learning Disabilities & Other Related Disorders: The Student Perspective/STAMPNJ
(M-PS; E)
3:45 Complete Feedback Form to get a Certificates of Attendance for up to 5.25 PDUs
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*** Some changes may occur to workshops due to speaker changes or cancellations.
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